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Never assume that a silverfish is just a silverfish. Tales from Scotland tell about the Cirein-cròin. This creature lets itself be caught by fishermen and once aboard it changes into a giant, hungry sea monster.

🎨Rudolf von Alt
#MythologyMonday

The Blue men of the Minch are creatures of the sea in Scottish folklore. They can create storms and when a ship approaches they might challenge the skipper to a poetry contest. If the skipper fails they will keel over the ship.

🎨William MacTaggart
#FolkloreThursday

One of my favourite folktales is 'The Mermaid of Zennor'. It's a Cornish tale which tells about a mermaid who falls in love with Mathey Trewella, the best singer of the parish. The couple disappears and are never seen on land again.

🎨John Reinhard Weguelin
#FairyTaleTuesday

I love Russian fairy tales. My favourite is 'The Frog Princess' in which a princess is being held captive in the form of a frog by the immortal Koschei. Her only way out is a prince who has to find a magic needle which will set her free.

🎨Viktor Vasnetsov
#FairyTaleTuesday

Puss in Boots, Master Cat or Booted cat is my own cat's favourite fairy tale.😼

This trickster has roots in Indian and Italian fairy tales before Perrault wrote it down. The cat even appears in Tchaikovsky's ballet called The Sleeping Beauty.

🎨Offterdinger
#FairyTaleTuesday

Hansel and Gretel weren't the only children abandoned by their parents.

Perrault has a brilliantly named character
Hop-o'-My-Thumb. This little hero finds some clever ways to survive and to save his life as well as that of his brothers.

🎨Gustave Doré

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